The project was conceived by the team behind Bitpanda, one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe.
Bitpanda’s business expertise helps Pantos with the transition from research and technical white papers to being a fully-functional product with technology made available to end users in a simple and accessible way. The expertise of researchers in their respective fields combined with Bitpanda's industry knowledge is a formula that is instrumental to Pantos' success.
Eric Demuth
Chief Executive Officer
Eric Demuth is an entrepreneur with an eSports background. Having been active in the financial industry in London and Vienna since 2009, he also founded his...
Paul Klanschek
Chief Executive Officer
Paul Klanschek first heard of Bitcoin back in 2010 and has been fascinated by the implications of blockchain technology in the financial sector and other ind...
Christian Trummer
Chief Scientist
Christian Trummer is a software developer and entrepreneur. After founding three software companies and having been involved in the crypto community since 20...
Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad
Deputy CEO & COO
Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad is the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO at Bitpanda. He is in charge of the whole product life cycle (product development) as...
Markus Levonyak
Lead Developer
Markus Levonyak is the Lead Blockchain Developer for Pantos at Bitpanda. He is responsible for transforming our research results into a working product. Mark...
Léon Marino
Product Ops
Léon is responsible for product operations & partnerships at Pantos. His goal is to build high-quality partnerships by leveraging relationships in the De...
Marsel Nenaj
Head of Communication
Marsel is the Project Communications Lead for Pantos and is responsible for the content production & strategy. He has been part of the Pantos project &am...
Luis Hauenstein
Product Manager
Luis is the Product Manager for Pantos at Bitpanda. He closely collaborates with the development team and designers to conceptualize and release new features...
Jacek Varky
Senior Blockchain Developer
Jacek is a highly-skilled and experienced blockchain developer. He will be working on upcoming blockchain integrations of Pantos.
Dănuț Ilisei
Blockchain Developer
Dănuț joined Pantos to work on further blockchain integrations for the Pantos network. He is currently finishing his Master's Degree at the TU München and is...
Christian Doppler Laboratory Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things.
The CDL-BOT is an application-oriented research laboratory where expert scientists cooperate with innovative companies. The laboratory is funded by the Austrian government and the commercial partners, the Pantos GmbH and the IOTA Foundation.
Stefan Schulte
Professor TU Hamburg
Stefan is a professor at the TU Hamburg and is the head of CDL-BOT. In 2010, Stefan finished his PhD at the TU Darmstadt summa cum laude. He joined the TU Wi...
Michael Sober
PhD Student TU Hamburg
Michael Sober is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institute of Data Engineering at the TU Hamburg. After finishing his bachelor’s studies in Softw...
Matteo Maffei
Professor TU Wien
Matteo is professor and head of the research unit “Security and Privacy” at the TU Wien. He joined the TU Wien in 2017 after 11 years at Saarland University....
Giulia Scaffino
PhD Student TU Wien
Giulia Scaffino is a PhD student at the TU Wien. After completing her MSc in Nuclear Physics in 2019, she now works in the TU Wien’s Security and Privacy res...
Dominik Schiener
Co-Founder IOTA Foundation
Dominik Schiener is the Chairman of the Board of Directors & Co-Founder of the IOTA Foundation and as the founder of the IOTA project, is also one of the...
William “Billy” Sanders
Director of Research IOTA Foundation
William Sanders is the Director of Research at the IOTA Foundation. His background is in pure maths, specifically commutative algebra and category theory. He...
Pantos is collaborating with commercial partners who support our vision and want to build on top of the Pantos Network.
Currently, there are two commercial partners. Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is a leading corporate and investment bank headquartered in Austria and is active in 13 markets in Central and Eastern Europe, serving almost 18 million customers.
Klaus Pirklbauer
Chief Executive Officer ABC
Klaus Pirklbauer is Chief Executive Officer of the ABC. After completing his doctorate at the University of Linz, Dr. Pirklbauer spent years as a researcher...
Alexander Eisl
Chief Scientific Officer ABC
Alexander Eisl is Chief Scientific Officer of the Austrian Blockchain Center and Co-Founder of FINcredible GmbH. His current research focuses on cryptocurren...
Vinzenz Treytl
Senior Researcher
Vinzenz Treytl is a senior researcher at ABC Research and a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the WU Wien. His...
